art on paper review

Happy to be mentioned in Hyperallergic's article on the art on paper fair

Art on Paper Joins the Armory Week Fold

• by Allison Meier on March 6, 2015

Puppets by Wayne White at Art on Paper, which were part of the 2014 ‘FOE’ installation at York College; cardboard, wood, and acrylic paint. Joshua Liner Gallery, New York. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)

Despite Art on Paper‘s name, the work on view at the first-time Armory Week fair includes as many different materials as at any other fair, with art created on paper and art inspired by paper on view.

Exterior of Art on Paper at Pier 36, with a banner of a rabbit drawing by Dave Eggers at left. (click to enlarge)

The fair has a fantastic showpiece installation in the form of Wayne White‘s colossal cardboard cowboys, one of which towers just inside the main entrance at Pier 36 on the East River. They were originally on view at York College of Pennsylvania last year as giant puppets. Also greeting visitors is a giant banner of a rabbit drawn by Dave Eggers on the exterior of the pier — the author is showing his illustrations with San Francisco gallery Electric Works — and an indoor installation of giant paper airplanes by Michael Scoggins, who has more oversized, elementary school-inspired notebook paperwork with New York’s Freight + Volume.
Perhaps a little ironically for a fair about art that celebrates paper, quite a few artists on view destroyed paper objects — namely books — to make their work. Most of it is well-crafted, however. Francesca Pastine‘s mask made from an issue of Artforum, the X-Acto blades dangling like necklaces, is on view with San Francisco’s Eleanor Harwood Gallery, and Brian Dettmer‘s tower of sliced hardcovers reveals a collage of encyclopedia images in the booth of New York’s Jayne H. Baum Gallery.
While the major art cities of the US coasts are well represented at the fair, there are also galleries from Paris, Vienna, Baltimore, Toronto, and elsewhere that don’t often show in New York present. Art on Paper was launched by Art Market Productions, which runs other fairs around the United States like Miami Project, Texas Contemporary, and Seattle Art Fair. If it sticks around for another year, it has the potential to fold some new regional flavor into the Armory Week fair frenzy.

Francesca Pastine, “ARTFORUM 53, Mgulu Rgulu, Mask Series” (2014), cut Artforum magazine, plexiglas, wood, screws strings, x-acto blades. To the left is an ink on paper work by Paul Wackers. Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco.

Michael Scoggins, “Dogfight” (2014), paper planes; presented by Freight + Volume, New York

Art by Michael Scoggins, graphite and pencil on paper; Freight + Volume, New York

Detail of Brian Dettmer’s “New Standards” (2015), hardcover books, acrylic varnish; Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York

Nathalia Edenmont, “Growing Up” (2012), c-print mounted on glass; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

Art by Federico Uribe made from books. Adelson Galleries, New York.

Art by Federico Uribe made from books. Adelson Galleries, New York.

Carolle Bénitah, “Le déguisement” (“The disguise”) (2009), archival pigment print with silk thread; Sous les Étoiles Gallery, New York

Melanie Pullen, “Ghosts (The Haunted Series)” (2015), ink on paper; Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco/New York

Sheridan Jones, “Coracus”; Rebecca Hossack Gallery, New York

Eva Jospin, “Untitled” (2015), cut paper; LN Gallery, Paris

Photographs by Adam Katseff; Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York

Art by Katherine Bradford; Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque

Detail of Diana Guerrero-Maciá, “Siblings of the Sun” (2015), series of 10 cut latex enamel & paper collage. Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, California.

Fair view of Art on Paper in Pier 36

Art on Paper continues through March 8 at Pier 36 (299 South Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan). 

Tagged as: Adam Katseff, art fairs, Art on Paper, Brian Dettmer, Carolle Benitah, Dave Eggers, Diana Guerrero-Macia, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Electric Works, Eva Jospin, Federico Uribe, Francesca Pastine, Freight + Volume, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, Joshua Liner Gallery, Katherine Bradford, Melanie Pullen, Michael Scoggins, Nathalia Edenmont, Paul Wackers, Sheridan Jones, Wayne White

TOTEM

ARTFORUM 49, Ori Olokum, Mask Series

ELEANOR HARWOOD GALLERY

1295 Alabama Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

January 10 through February 21

Opening Reception: January 10, 4 - 7 pm

This is [Not] a Book: Melting Across Bounds by Gretchen E. Henderson

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I Seem to be on the Eco/Green/Re-purposed Blog radar

ECO ARRIVALS also picked up on my Artforum Excavations.

Francesca Pastine’s The ArtForum Excavation Series is seriously artistic

 

 

The NYC-born, San Francisco-based artist Francesca Pastine loves to bring myriad landscapes, socio-political issues, feminine sensibilities and peculiarly modernistic responsiveness to the fore through her incomparable paintings. However, the artist has another knack for creating remarkable artworks out of discarded magazines. The ArtForum Excavation Series demonstrates magazine art in all its glory. 

 

The sculptural pieces of art are created out of ARTFORUM magazine pages. The artist neatly cuts around the paper, while making sure that chosen book parts remain intact to reveal explicitly intricate artistic patterns inside the frame. As Pastine puts it, her manipulations revolve around the central theme of exploring “curious juxtapositions”. Considering the fact that her X-acto blade is the only equipment that helps her create her art, you will go into raptures over the final versions. Browse through the gallery to unravel mysteries behind Francesca Pastine’s exemplary magazine art:

Inhabititat Magazine Reviews My Work

Francesca Pastine Carves Artforum Magazines to Make Amazing Sculptural Topographies

by Morgana Matus, 01/07/13

The arts and culture publication Artforum may be used to commenting on the world of museums and galleries, but now they find themselves as the work of art itself. In her Artforum Excavation Series, Francesca Pastine carves the magazines to form colorful, sculptural pieces that seem to melt down the wall, fold in on themselves, and form sculptural structures. Using an Xacto blade, the San Francsico-based artist painstakingly carved each page creating what she calls "unsolicited collaborations."

Read more: Francesca Pastine Carves ArtForum Magazines to Make Amazing Sculptural Topographies | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Blogged on COLOSSAL, Art and Visual Ingenuity

Christopher Jobson featured my Artforum Series on his smart and visually centric blog, COLOSSAL, Art and Visual Ingenuity. According to Christopher, "Colossal is a Webby-nominated blog that explores art, design, and photography, with a focus on work that is non-digital in nature," so it does not surprise me that my Artforum work, with it's tactile nature, caught his eye.

Review of Unsolicited in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Galleries: 'Outside of Time,' beautifully and mysteriously

November 25, 2012|By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer

Not that Artforum magazine ever needed help with its design, but Francesca Pastine, a San Francisco artist who is having her first solo exhibition here, has made it even more visually absorbing by cutting shapes into issues of the famously thick and square glossy with an X-acto blade - an act she considers a kind of unsolicited collaboration with the magazine and the cover artists (Bridget Riley, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, and others). Pastine cuts at an angle, leaving the edges of pages, and any number of fleeting art-world trends, temptingly exposed. 

Francesca Pastine, Artforum 45, Pour Series, 2012

  

Pentimenti Gallery, 145 N. 2d St., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. www.pentimenti.com. or 215-625-9990. Through Dec. 15.

NEW WORK

These are some of my new Artforum, Pour Series, work that will be featured at Pentimenti Gallery this November

 

Artforum 44, Unsolicited Collaboration with Michael Clark, Pour Series 2012

 

Artforum 43, Unsolicited Collaboration with Bridget Riley, Pour Series 2012 

 

Artforum 44, Unsolicited Collaboration with Trisha Brown, Pour Series 2012 

Artforum 46, Best of 2006, Pour Series 2012

Many thanks to Art Enthusiast Blog

Many Thanks to Art Enthusiast Blog for review and pictures of , Unsolicitied, at Eleanor Harwood Gallery

THIS IS HOW MY BRAIN WORKS exhibit at Radiator Gallery

 

This is How My Brain Works

Donovan Barrow, Brian Belott, Natasha Bowdoin, Max Clarke, Floto+Warner, Sara Klar, Todd Knopke, Michael Lee, Elisa Lendvay, Abraham McNally, Andrew Mount, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Francesca Pastine, Javier Pinon, Leslie Siegel

Curated by Michael Lee

September 7 – 30, 2012

Radiator Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its sixth show This Is How My Brain Works, a group exhibition that inaugurates the gallery’s second season.  With over 30 works made by sixteen artists, the show examines the practice of collage through its many iterations and permutations ranging from works on paper to artist books, photographs, sculpture, textiles, digital projections and video.  Through the presentation of visually diverse but not conceptually disparate works, the show helps define collage as both a working method still robust at the turn of the 21 century but more importantly as a manner of processing information either willfully or uncontrollably.  The show’s title is a comical send-up of the precognitive jumble that is the necessary basis for the eventual creation of meaningful logic in the human brain.

Whether culled from magazine pages, scavenged from a neighbor’s recycling bin, plucked from the uncharted corners of the internet--or the physical corner of an urban street—this group of artists shares a love for material with a history.  It can be cultural memory, what artist Christian Marclay describes as the “recognition of the source material with the pleasurable violence of transformation”, or it can manifest itself in the physical wear objects undergo with the passing of time.  Whatever the case, the audience’s synapses begin to fire upon seeing this new/old thing well before a fully formed idea congeals in their heads.  This is what all art is about.  Collage highlights this fact.

The current generation of collage and assemblage artists is conversant in the standard and accepted history of the form as modernist paradigm par excellence.  While this history obviously informs artists in this show, they have an advantage over their predecessors in contextualizing this working method as pre-modern far more easily due simply to their place in time.  The palimpsests of ancient cities and the collage roots of film projection start to seem much closer when looked at from this perspective. What was once considered an artistic reaction to the specific age of communication can be seen in retrospect as a responsive method to connect art and the world in any age. 

Michael Lee is an artist and teacher. This is his first curatorial effort. He was awarded a residency at Cooper Union in 2005 and at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in 2008. Michael earned a BFA in art history from The University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York. 

A catalogue will be published in conjunction with This Is How My Brain Works.  Please also find related events and documentation at www.radiatorarts.com.  For more information and images, email info@radiatorarts.com or call 347 677 3418.

A newcomer to the burgeoning art scene surrounding MoMA PS 1 in Long Island City, Queens, Radiator Arts was started by Tamas Veszi in 2011 as a venue dedicated to giving independent curators and artist-curators access to space and providing an opportunity to strengthen the vital artist community of north Brooklyn and western Queens. 

Radiator Gallery

10-61 Jackson Ave

Long Island City, NY

Photos by Mary King

NEW WORK

Artforum 41, Unsolicited Collaboration with Frank Stella
Artforum 40,
Artforum 40
Artforum39, Unsolicited Collaboration with Guy de Cointet
Art forum 39
Best of 2007, Artforum Excavation Series

DAGBEELD BLOG

I was featured on Dagbeeld

http://www.digezine.nl/digezine/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3809:dagbeeld-789-francesca-pastine&catid=40:sea-hear-perviews

Tegenwoordig zien we weer geregeld het opnieuw toepassen van andermans werk of design in nieuwe creatieve uitingen, zoals dat overigens ook al jaren geleden opzien baarde (Marcel Duchamp). Bij Francesca Pastine komt daar in dit geval nog een extra tussenstap bij te pas - zij neemt namelijk oude exemplaren van ArtForum, een van de toonaangevende art-magazines die op grote schaal werk van kunstenaars publiceren, weer als basismaterialen voor haar papiersculpturen.

Door dan ook nog eens overduidelijk van 'For the Love of God', een fameus werk van Damian Hirst op de cover gebruik te maken voor haar intrigerende sculptuur is er in feite sprake van een drietrapsraket (of misschien wel meer trappen als we de uiteenlopende geruchten over de diamanten schedel mogen geloven.

Met deze via glamcult.com gespotte Francesca Pastine tonen we voor dit DAGBEELD een van onze favoriete media - papierknip- of snijkunst - ook weer eens op een heel andere manier dan we toonden van designers als Jerome Corgier en Yulia Brodskaya of bekende kunstenaars als Karen Sargsyan en Ton Zwerver welke laatste haar qua materiaalgebruik nog het dichtst benadert.

Het doorklikken naar het 'artforum excavations' portfolio van Francesca levert een aantal zeer mooie composities van re-re-used art op die allemaal ArtForum tijdschriften en Jaarboeken als uitgangspunt hebben. Meer werk van Francesca Pastine via de Eleanor Harwood gallery (o.a. 'Iraq casualties') of haar eigen website bearclaw.rexx.com

FLOOD BLOG

My work is mentioned on THE FLOOD blog.

http://ledeluge.wordpress.com/?s=francesca+pastine

http://ledeluge.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/art-blasphemous-cut-outs/

Auction at San Jose

I am participating in the 29th Annual Fall Art Auction at the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose:

560 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113 tel (408) 283-8155 fax (408) 283-8157 http://www.sjica.org/index.htm

Exhibition: October 2 - October 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday October 2, 6-8 PM
Auction: Saturday October 24, 7 PM

Opening at the Lab on May 28

Opening at the Lab of the Invisible Women, Iraqi Casualty and Artforum Excavations










































I was happy to get a few good reviews. This one was in the SF Chronicle:

"Congratulations to Francesca Pastine for making Artforum involving again.

Decades ago, in simpler times, people actually looked forward to reading the magazine, when it served as the New York art world's journal of record. Since then, Artforum has followed the trajectory of the art market itself, retailing moneyed glamour and the atmospherics of contemporary art. Meanwhile, most of the intellectual substance has shifted to its outrigger, Bookforum.

Each issue of Artforum now boasts slab-like bulk and a power like kryptonite to drain the strength of any art professional who tries to face it.

But in an ingenious series showing at the Lab, Pastine has found in the magazine the makings of memorable art, by means connected incidentally to Villeglé's practice.

In "Artforums 2001: (Artforum Excavation Series)" (2008), she has meticulously carved a crater in a stack of 2001 issues. At one corner of the top cover - December - we can make out the remains of a tone-deaf banner: "Best of 2001."

The hole Pastine has cut in the magazines, stratified with color from their glossy pages, irresistibly brings to mind the physical and emotional voids left by Sept. 11 massacres.

In a related piece without obvious topical reference, she has cut an irregular hole - again looking something like a comic-book strip mine - into a single issue of the magazine, exposing a page apparently empty of all but a soft gray glow.

In two other series here, Pastine has selectively effaced pages from the New York Times to expose not very deeply underlying contradictions, such as the collision of values in advertising and war news or fashions' real and ostensible values to the women who model them and those who covet them." Kenneth Baker

work in Progress

This is a piece in progress. It's part of my Artforum Excavation Series. I have cut small rectangles out of the disco ball painting on the cover of an Artorum magazine. I am now in the process of turning a page into a cut spiral and pulling it through each rectangle on the cover. It's a time intensive process and it takes me about five hours to pull through ten pages. The piece is less than half done. Some of the pages spiral out to about eight feet long! The spiral section should be very full by the time I'm finished. As you can see, I'm only pulling spirals through the bottom third pf the disco ball. I like the way the spirals cascade to the floor! You can see the piece on my desk as I work on it.